AtD translation: invested in, invested by

[Mark Kohut]

And here is are two sentences from Proust that put me in mind of the below
without the metaphysical japery:

“For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another
and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. But that time was still
to come."

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 5:22 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> And we might have to recall McTaggart in AtD, who argued very
> cleverly that Time did not even exist.
> Which, picking up from Morris's observations means their entire worldviews
> are at risk, even are a joke.
>
> One possibility about the "invested in, invested by" might flow
> straight from McTaggart. If Time doesn't exist then
> we are timelessly functioning this way---our selves in the Time that
> doesn't exist or our selves ruled by the Time
> that doesn't exist. As if here Time is a space, so to speak.
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:42 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All of the listed groups have ideological investments in different
>> concepts
>> in which Time is a Prime mover and unchangable.  If Time can be
>> manipulated
>> then their entire world views are at risk.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:21 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > P452.6-12   The conferees had gathered here from all around the world,
>> > Russian nihilists with peculiar notions about the laws of history and
>> > reversible processes, Indian swamis concerned with the effect of time
>> > travel on the laws of Karma, Sicilians with equal apprehensions for the
>> > principle of vendetta, American tinkers like Merle with specific
>> > electromechanical questions to clear up. Their spirits all one way or
>> > another invested in, invested by, the siegecraft of Time and its
>> mysteries.
>> >
>> > In what senses are the two "invested" used, especially the second?
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